let's check in with sandy cutler the ceo of eaton.elcome back to "mad money." >> good evening, jim. best wishes for the holidays. >> same to you. same to you. i think your company now is just an electric and power management company with other businesses. the reason i put it like that is because that is one of the fastest-growing businesses in the world, electrical power management. while the others are still important, i think that the growth of the company is this new-formed division. am i reading it too close to cooper and not enough to the vast panoply of your company? >> we still think the whole broad array of businesses we have that are all profiting from this global trend of increasingly efficient use of energy is still the big game for eaton. no question the cooper acquisition means about 60% of our revenue using 2011 pro formas will be in electrical. about another 20% in aerospace and hydraulics. about 80% of the business in those newer businesses for eaton. >> when i look at cooper i see terrific clients. you've got chevron,

jackson appoints eaton has secretary of war. here's the scandal. there was a young girl in washington d.c.. the calder little peg, peggy o'neal and her father owned a tavern. this tavern was a tavern/boarding house where jackson and be and other politicians when they go to washington they would board their but in truth it was a tavern/boarding house/brothel. little peg, the daughter, peggy o'neal was sort of the most popular attractioattractio n at the boarding house. you can picture her like a mae west coming down the steps. she would sing and perform. she was known to sit on all a politician slaps. she was the sort of dashing figure, have frances diane, half may west. that is peggy o'neal. peggy o'neal runs away against her father's wishes and marries a guy in timberlake and while timberlake is at sea for your peggy gives birth to the first child and while he he is a seed for another year she has another child with him so it's a huge scandal. timberlake may have jumped overboard and committed suicide. jackson appoints be nasa's secretary of war.

you liked mcdonald's and eaton. mcdonald's, essentially, has been dwind length a little bit, moving lower. but eaton has been a nice move with double-digit increase. do you still like them? >> we still do. the fundamentals are very strong there. the valuations are attractive. they both have dividend yields that are greater than yields on their own 10-year debt. so we would much rather be owners of the stocks than owners of the bonds in those cases. >> tom: you would rather be stock owners than company lenders. how about the four stocks we mentioned tonight? do you own them all? >> we do, and i own them personally. >> tom: our friday market none torfrom nasdaq, hank smith with haverford trust. >> susie: monday on "n.b.r.": ford motor is shifting gears, focusing new attention on one of its iconic brands. we talk with ford c.e.o. alan mulally. and later next week, ever wonder what goes into making those cardboard store displays. a look at how one box company is reinventing itself. >> susie: with all the slings and arro

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there was a fellow called hubert eaton at forest lawn cemetery in southern california.and he went out and tried to find images of jesus smiling 'cause he thought that in america, at least, jesus should smile instead of frown. >> smiling is one thing, laughing is another, was that your burl 11? >> no, it isn't my burl 11, it's an artist named ralphco zach that shows jesus leaning back d not laughing guffawing. >> a real knee-slapper. >> it's a real knee-slapper, that's right. >> do you find that gained any assemble tans in the united states? >> yeah, i mean, that picture is fairly popular. >> the phenomenon, the potential reality. we know jesus was all human, we know he was all god because he has a divine nature, i say "we know," this is the christian theology, at least that's catholic theology and it's i think still ]- a few orthodox episcopalian, you're a episcopalian. >> sure. >> who believe in the die vin origin, there's a dual nature, a god and man nature but both were fully fulfilled, if you're fully fulfilled human sense incongruity and laugh, right. >> correct. >

percent for a cash balance there is a class of mutual fund called prime rate fund or leverage loan fund eaton vance has a very good one and these funds and invest in in the senior debt claims floating rate debt claims of companies that have been through leveraged buyouts m.b.o. those and the like now these are leveraged companies but you as an investor a command the senior most capital position in that and these loans did very well as a credit they did very well in terms of credit and repayment and the whole experience even in two thousand and seven eight and nine and these funds shield from us for a half to five and five plus there was also a class of income producing asset called the business development company i think ari's and column both have b d c they're listed in new york stock exchange the prices of these can be volatile but again the credit experience of both of them has been very good over a very difficult cycle as they both yield above eight percent all right well there you have a couple attempts in this world of no yield or low yield where you have found some to tell us about i

the niners will now face the new eaton patriots next sunday at 520. >> if you like to turn out a shoppingl last minute marathon macy's were you can go to any hour of the day. they will be open for non stop shopping the last entire weekend before christmas. stores will open at 7:00 a.m. on friday december 21st and stay open until 7:00 a.m. on sunday december 23rd. when cecil sales of the marathon will end the morning of macy's says many stores will remain open until midnight. the company has tried out extended stopping hours in past years but this is the first time all 800 macy's nationwide will participate. >> you have a parking spot when you go macy's into the morning. all live look at what a beautiful view here from our mt. tam cam. former republican can't presidential candidate mid rockne is topping this year's best " lists according to the l t university librarian. french imperial shapiro released the seven and a less with the most mobile quotations of the year. the top of the last minute romney's comments of the 47 percent of the population depending on the government. romney made th

chris van eaton who lost both of his legs in afghanistan waking up christmas eve and finding racist graffitithe side of his house. >> to have what was spray painted it hurts. it hurts that it was now. >> wasn't made it better was neighbors coming out people we didn't even know coming and helping taking supplys from their house to help wash it off. >> good neighbors there. >> the van eatens are hopeful police are make an arrest soon. >> caught on cameras the shocking moment. it's a 33 done shark tank suddenly burst send ago wave of water and chards of broken glass every where. it happened at a shopping center in shanghai. 15 people had to be rushed to the hospital. they suffered mostly deep cuts and bruises. no word yet on what caused the accident. that is your 5@5:30. >> my gosh. that would be terrifying. we are getting new video in this morning of president obama boarding air force one and leaving hawaii. five days until we fall off the fiscal cliff. the president returning to washington to try to negotiate things there. doug luzader is life with the president's plans and what could happen

. >> reporter: now master piece executive producer rebecca eaton is awfully glad she said yes. >> it's top of the sundae or the peacake. >> tea or not. reporter: speaking of confections, addicted as i am to downtown abbey, what could be sweeter than to be part of the first u.s. network television crew ever allowed on the set? in april during the shooting of season 3... >> of course i knew, thank you. reporter: ... for months on end, the cast and crew take over high clear castle, the home of a real earl in the english countryside southwest of london. you can't help saying to yourself, oh, it's lord grant a.m. and then, no, it's the actor hugh bonville. >> we all have different parts to play, matthew. and we must all be allowed to play them. >> i think people expect me to behave like a lord and have a labrador at my heels all the time. i don't. you know, i go to the supermarket in my jeannes and sweat shirt. >> reporter: or to his trailer in a t-shirt. but for downtown fans, it's hard not to think of dan stevens as matthew crawly, hare to downton abbey and major heart throb. how do you d

. >> and sandy cutler on "mad money" last night, this is the guy who is now the head of eaton cooper, they call it eaton, saying construction is better, where i'm seeing some, some positives because the fed. we saw a number today that dazzled me, southern california best home sales in six years. >> have we ever gone into a recession when the home -- when the housing industry, excuse me, is on an upswing? >>> it is a huge part of the u.s. economy. obviously, if you just look at the breakout, only 10%. but the spinoffs of housing, automotive, very good, both in bull market mode. i attribute a lot of that to what the fed has done. gave lot of credit to the fed, perhaps, but also feel the debate shifted yesterday in washington. i began to hear way too many people say, you know what the president is curiously unengaged when it comes to cuts. i have always felt the president had the upper hand in this debate. i listened to bernanke and bernanke says, listen, i know they aren't going to come to deal. i see a lot of republicans on air saying we start to understand what they are they want as c

repeat of the suez canal crisis where i guess it was our own president eisenhower who informed anthony eatont if they didn't pull their troops out of suez when they landed to take it over from the nationalization by nasser, we wouldn't roll over their dead. they left. i'm just not sure as i go from seminar to seminar that the fix the debt this morning, for example, there was no one sitting there like yourself or someone else that says i am the person who represents the debt, the negative costs of no decisions, the negative cost or the -- costs always are negative -- the cost of continuing where we're going. have we adequately communicated that to the american people that it's not just an individual's re-election that's at stake, it's jobs at stake? we could see another recurrence of 2008 and '9 very easily with an order of magnitude greater. we could see a recurrence of the energy crisis where i first met mr. peterson when he was secretary of commerce which completely blindsided the government. what could we go to get this out in a clear way that's convincing? >> wow. no, go ahead. >> you're

eaton, a company in the cleveland area, has thousands of employees in northeast ohio, exports industrial clutches and brakes to russia and looks forward to the certainty this bill brings. when working with our customers in russia, they need that certainty. t.d. aviation in ohio employs about 9,000 people has a great opportunity to compete as russia acquires over 1,000 new civilian aircraft over the next decade. ohio's cattlemen support this legislation. russia made important concessions in the negotiations that help us meet the growing demand for u.s. beef in russia. it is currently the fifth largest export market for u.s. beef and according to the usda, we have a number to rise dramatically. the bill also contains some items that the russian government opposes, including the human rights provisions which were discussed earlier here on the floor, inspired by the treatment of russian lawyer sergei magnitsky. senators cardin, mccain and others put the spotlight on the corruption and lack of transparency in russia. these provisions will clamp down on human right abusers denying them visas a